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Fascinating remote islands of the world

Roger Lovegrove, the former director of the RSPB in Wales, has written a new book about some of the world's "most remote, remarkable, places". Here we look at some of the spectacular islands he covers. Wrangel Island Where is it? Arctic Ocean, between the Chukchi Sea and East Siberian Sea. What is it like? "Nowhere else in the western hemisphere is there an island as impossibly icebound as to be unapproachable by sea in many years." These are brief extracts from extended descriptions in the book 'Islands Beyond The Horizon'
(Oxford University Press, £16.99) by Roger Lovegrove.